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by Sangeeta mataji of Singapore

(All of you must be preparing for observing Guru Maharaja’s Tirobhava Festival-as well as Vyasapuja Celebration- and thinking about what to offer to Guru Maharaja from the kitchen. I would like to bring to your attention about the email sent by Sangeeta Mataji in 2006 regarding this. Shortly after his disappearance, Guru Maharaja appeared in the dream of Sangeeta Mataji and told her exactly his favorite menu. Remarkably, it’s 100% true. Most of them we used to serve Guru Maharaja in Kolkata, Manipur, etc. I hope this would be helpful to add to the already exciting menu you have in your mind. I have copied the eamil at the end of my text. Please read again this wonderful pastime and the menu. Happy serving Guru Maharaja!-Vrajapati das) Read the rest of this entry »

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Srila Prabhupada’s Affectionate Remarks About Sripada Maharaja

The spiritual master is always concerned about the wellbeing of the disciples. The affection and care of the spiritual master for his disciple are clearly visible in the relationship between Srila Prabhupada and Sripada Maharaja. Srila Prabhupada’s remarks about Sripada Maharaja made during the period from 1970 to 1977 collected from conversation volume and other volumes are a garland of blessings and confidence of the spiritual master to his disciple. Read the rest of this entry »

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by Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Svami Sripada Maharaja

Bedugul, Bali, Indonesia, Dec 28, 2005

Hare Krsna, I d like to thanks all of you for your coming from different great planets…

So, Bhaktivonoda Thakur says, that in most people sleeping, so therefore it is good to understand that we are waking up from deep slumber…slumber mean sleep. So by the blessing of Prabhupada that so…we given this wonderful understanding that we have to get up from this deep sleep. To wake up means…what do we do when we wake up? just like the sun rising in early in the morning and then …we see everything is look up a beautiful life and we can see around, also we can remember the beautiful  birds and so many wonderful things happening when we wake up in the morning. So this understanding of waking up of from deep sleep, deep sleep means one completely in the mood of ignorance, darkness, tamoguna.  When tamoguna is influenced the individual, we just like in a deep slumber or deep sleep. But Read the rest of this entry »

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by Ekalavya das

Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to your on this most auspicious day of your Vyasapuja.

I remember Gurumaharaja inviting me to Manipur when I was in Mayapur with him.  He very much appreciated my trumpet playing in the kirtan.

One year I was in charge of organizing the kirtans in the morning of the Mayapur festival.  I was trying to book Maharaja for Mangal Arotik.  He was staying in the ashram in Navadwipa, so it was challenging to facilitate him to come to perform kirtan for the pleasure of Sri Sri Radha Madhava and the devotees.

Maharaja asked me if anyone had been booked for Mangal Arotik on Gaura Purnima.  I said no, and asked him if he would grace the occasion.  Maharaja mercifully agreed.  On the day of the blessed appearance of Lord Gauranga, Maharaja and a team of kirtaniyas from Manipur appeared in the temple like denizens of the spiritual world.  Maharaja sang so beautifully, that it melted the hearts of everyone.

After the prema dvani prayers (jaya om visnu pada…), there was some action of yoga maya (or my incompetence as organizer of the kirtans) and there was some confusion as to who would lead the Nrsimhadeva Arotik.  Maharaja was there to save me and he mercifully lead the Nrsimhadeva Arotik as well, to the great pleasure of all of the devotees present.

Maharaja arranged for my Manipur visa, no easy feat, because USA citizens like myself are not easily facilitated.  I arrived in Imphal just after the Mayapur Gaura Purnima Festival, and we began a daily Holi sankirtan festival.

The devotees had been expertly planning for months.  There was a bus and several cars, including one that Maharaja was riding in.  There was a map and every day around forty houses were selected in the same vicinity for harinama.  Approximately twenty houses received the harinama party before lunch and twenty after lunch.

Maharaja was a vibrant ball of energy, leading the devotees from house to house.  Upon reaching the traditional Manipuri home, devotees would bow down to the Tulasi plant in the center of the courtyard and begin to sing and dance, chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra.  After the kirtan came to a crescendo, the devotees would again bow down to Tulasi.  The hosts would bring out simple snack prasadam like bananas, apple slices, and sweet juices for the devotees.  One senior devotee would have a receipt book, and receive a donation for the new temple project.  The hosts would offer their respects to Maharaja, and he gracefully reciprocated with them.

On the fourth day of the Holi festival, we went to a beautiful home, high in the mountains.  There was a gorgeous temple of Jaganatha with an opulent and spacious kirtan mandap.  Here Maharaja personally sang the kirtan, and I had the feeling that I had left the material world, and entered in the spiritual world.  The atmosphere of the mountains, low clouds and mist, devotees swaying to and fro in the kirtan, and the auspicious darshan of Lord Jagannatha created a transcendental atmosphere.

I remember another time Maharaja had come to Mayapur with 108 drummers.  That drum exhibition created a power experience in my heart.  Later, when I was in Kumba Mela, Maharaja also arrived with the same team.  Daily we would all go for Harinama Sankirtan throughout the Kumba Mela.  Maharaja and Manipur Drummers would always create a musical and colorful spectacle, attracting large crowds of both visitors to the Kumba Mela, as well as all sorts of sadhus, local and otherwise.

On one of the big bathing days, I remember that for some time Maharaja was carrying our small murti of Srila Prabhupada, then the murti was passed into my care.  It was my greatest honor and pleasure to carry Srila Prabhupada, passed into my care by Maharaja.

May the instructions and memories of Maharaja, as well as his continued personal guidance to his sincere followers, continue to enthuse us our devotional service in the mission of his beloved Srila Prabhupada.

Begging for your mercy and compassion,

A speck of dust at your lotus feet,

Dasanudas, ekalavya das

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Taken From Bhagavata Sevarpanam

On July 14, 2000 Sripada Maharaja was travelling with a few of his friends and devotees from Orlando to Savanna, Atlantic coast, Georgia, U.S.A. The trip was to request some of the important friends in Savanna to help raise some funds for the University of Bhagavata Culture. The Night was spent in a motel run by people from India. The next morning, July 15, he got up by 4 a.m. Still feeling friend, he again went to bed. At that time, in a half-sleeping state he saw vividly Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura lying on a bed in the corner of the room. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura was very happy and enthusiastic about the University of Bhagavata culture envisioned by Maharaja by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.The appearance of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura in Maharaja’s vision reminds us of the following famous saying of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura:

“He reasons ill who say that vaishnavas die when thou art living still in sound! The vaishnavas die to live, and living try to spread the holy name around.”

Here What was Sripada Maharaj wrote on His Diary:

Got up at 4:00 am & gain was lying because I was tired

From Orlando to Savanna, Ga

6:55 a.m. Savanna july 15, 2000

Saturday

I saw Srila Bhaktisiddanta S. Prabhupada in my vision. He was lying on a bed. I requested him for an appointment (darsan) either before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 a.m. after lunch for advice in devotional life as well as about the University of Bhagavata Culture that I am building in Imphal. Srila Bhaktisidhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada was in a very jolly mood. I was on his right side and just like a little child is embraced by the grand father, he embraced me by his right hand and he asked me let’s go to Manipur and discuss and you also invite your Guru Maharaja Srila Prabhupada in Manipur. We will go together. Then I said we will also discuss about this journey. Then in my mind I was thinking how to arrange the vyasa-asana for both Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada and my Guru Maharaja

B.S. Damodara Swami

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Taken From Bhagavata Sevarpanam Book
Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami (Sripada Maharaja) has spent much of his time and energy in Tirupati, Hyderabad, Vijayawada and many other places in Andhra Pradesh in early 1980s. Around that time there was severe drought for one year. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) temple trust arranged a fire sacrifice for rain inviting many spiritual groups. Maharaja was very confidence about the statement of the Bhagavad-gita that sacrifice produces rain and that chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord is the best sacrifice in this age of Kali. When Sripada Maharaja started the ecstatic chanting of the Holy Name and dancing with several devotees, torrents of rain started pouring to the amazement of everyone present on the sacred Tirumala hills. From then, all the members of TTD temple management become extremely impressed with Sripada Maharaja.

Sripada Kirtan

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Sesa Prabhu: I take it as a very great honor that I can sit before you today to speak a little bit about His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami. As I do so, I remember my godbrother, His Grace Bhojadeva Prabhu. I want to mention his name because he was actually our godbrother, Srila Prabhupada’s disciples’ godbrother, that was very, very close to His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja. Actually he was sitting on the stage on Janmastami in Manipur when the terrorist attack happened and the bomb blast took place. Bhojadeva is a rather big person. He took a lot of the shrapnel from those bombs shielding His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja and preventing more serious injury from happening to him. Of course he himself was very seriously injured. Fortunately now, by the grace of Lord Krsna, he is recovering. I know he would like to be here today to speak about Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, so I hope that I can do some service to him and Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja by saying a few words here today.

I think that all of us should realize the significance of the loss that we are experiencing by the departure of His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja. He was, and his relationship with His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was very, very special. It taught us a very, very special lesson about the relationship between Guru and disciple.

Srila Prabhupada was very, very fond of His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja. Of course, the spiritual master is very fond of all his disciples, that is not to be questioned, but sometimes we see a very, very special relationship that exists between the spiritual master and one of his disciples. In ordinary material life, such a special affection is the cause of envy for others, but in spiritual relationships, the matter is different.

Whatever pleases the Lord, whatever pleases the spiritual master is the life and soul of all the disciples, of all the devotees. So if one can be pushed forward that offers special pleasure to the spiritual master, that is everyone’s pleasure. In my mind, His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja had this type of a relationship with Srila Prabhupada.

Srila Prabhupada would actually call for him, “Where is our scientist?” Whenever he wanted to have some fun debating about smashing the scientists, he always wanted His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja to be there. “What do they say?” he would always ask him, call him very affectionately.

Of course we know that Srila Prabhupada, his point in discussing the scientists and their belief system and how they’ve gained control in the world was more than just a mere joking session. It was a very, very key essential part of his preaching Krsna consciousness all over the world to destroy the hold, the grip that these materialistic scientists have on the minds and hearts of modern civilization.

Therefore, when he got a disciple like His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, who was a scientist, who was trained by them, who could understand their arguments, and who was so surrendered to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, he was very, very pleased by that.

He therefore called him, trained him, grilled him, provided all the instruction, all the support that he needed to be a key player in Srila Prabhupada’s plan to change this world. They had a very, very special relationship. And all of us whose life and soul it is to please His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada have lost something with the departure of His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja.

So the question now becomes, how do we go forward? This is more and more becoming the unfortunate task of those of us who remain behind as our beloved Godbrothers one by one depart to serve Srila Prabhupada in other places. Our task is to remain faithful to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, his mission, his vision, and to try to support that and participate in that mission in whatever way that we can.

Clearly, Srila Prabhupada wanted this materialistic science to be defeated. Clearly and very affectionately, he trained His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja to do that. Clearly, it is our duty to try to further that work which was so dear to both of them.

I know that during the last year of his presence with us here in this material world, His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja became more and more and more determined and fixed on the instructions, the very specific instructions, that Srila Prabhupada had given him about this type of scientific preaching. I had the great fortune to be involved in debate with him about such instructions. Of course, that is very insolent of me to feel that I can debate with my senior godbrother, sannyasi, but somehow or other, by Krsna’s arrangement, I was put in that situation. The great lesson I learned from that was that I should be so fixed to instructions given by Srila Prabhupada as Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja was fixed to the instruction given to him by Srila Prabhupada.

I think that none of us will be prepared at any time for such a wonderful Vaisnava to depart, but if we can separate ourselves from the feelings of anguish at his departure and we can look at it objectively–I don’t know that looking at it objectively is what we’d want to do, we’d rather look at it in a more heartfelt way–but if we did try to look at it objectively, if we could do that, we would have to say that he, no matter what the circumstances were, was fixed, irremovably fixed, at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada and that such departure was indeed timely. Timely in the sense that he was so fixed.

We can only pray to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Sri Radha Madhava, that at the time we leave this world, we can be as fixed in the determination to serve Srila Prabhupada as His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja was when he left this mortal world.

Hare Krsna.

Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja ki jai!

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http://mayapurlectures.blogspot.com/2007/02/memorial-program-for-hh-bhaktisvarupa.html

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by Devarsi Das

Devarsi Prabhu: So my name is Devarsi Das. I received initiation from Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja in 1992 in New Mayapur in France. The day that he gave me initiation, it was re-initiation for me, I asked him to come to the Padayatra in south of France. He accepted. Two-three days after, we were riding to south of France. At that time he had his cane, so it was a little difficult for him to walk on Padayatra. We had very simple accommodation. I invited him to stay in the room I was renting in the south of France. It was about eight meters square room. It was a place for one bed and one mat and a little kitchen. Actually, from the beginning he showed me what is simplicity. He accepted to stay in the bed where I was sleeping before and I was sleeping just on the mat. His simplicity was quite extraordinary. I have always seen this quality in him.

Since Jayapataka Maharaja spoke quite a lot about his different services in ISKCON and his scientific preaching, I may speak a little about different qualities that I have seen in him. One quality that impressed me a lot was his humility. He very often reminded me of this verse:

trnad api sunicena taror api sahisnuna amanina manadena kirtaniyah sada harih.

He really exemplified this verse in his life.

I remember one time in Manipur, we were visiting one of his former teachers in a very small school. The teacher was about seventy-five, eighty years old. Immediately as soon as he saw his teacher, he paid full dandavats to his former teacher.

He was so tolerant about life because many of his disciples, including myself, we are not so qualified so we are making quite a lot of mistakes. Like a father, he was always guiding us and always helping us to develop tolerance. On time I asked him in Calcutta, I was also in the Congress in 1997, I asked what is possible to do for the French devotees. He said, “They need to be the tolerant, so maybe I can invite them all to come for five years to Calcutta to learn tolerance!”

He was very joyful, very humorous. Actually in my observation, he was really a perfect gentleman. I have never seen him really angry, even in some disaster. He showed me and he showed to us real Krsna consciousness. It was a question of consciousness. He was so busy working, serving his own spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, and a huge toll to present Krsna consciousness to the scientific world. He very peacefully, with a lot of determination and a lot of joy, he was really working a lot, a lot, a lot. Calcutta was his place of work, really.

Prasada Prabhu at the end is going to tell us what was the last days in his life, how he was experiencing something quite special.

One day I was in Calcutta with him. I got the opportunity to get some books from BI and to go to Calcutta to distribute some books in Ultadanga, BI books. He was very pleased to see that it was possible, that people door to door, shop to shop were able to appreciate the books and took some books. He put a lot of emphasis in these books about Bhaktivedanta Institute, about this scientific preaching, about God is a person, about all these things.

Personally, I am quite inspired all that he has done in his life and also for me and also for many non-devotees I know. He has been able to touch the heart of many, many people, actually. Not in a big way like that, but in a very subtle and very deep and very profound way.

Now two days ago I was in Radha Kunda in his samadhi. If you want to know a little more about him, I can invite you to come to Radha Kunda to his samadhi in Gopaldeva Mandir because it was the place he really wanted to be. Although he never stayed there in Radha Kunda, it was the place that was the object of his meditation. You are most welcome to Gopaldeva Mandir in Radha Kunda.

Hare Krsna.

Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja ki jai!

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remembrance by His Holiness Srila Jayapataka Swami

Jayapataka Swami: Every year, at the New Panihati festival in Atlanta, we have a Prabhupada lila-smarana festival of his visit there. Svarupa Damodara Maharaja was there when Prabhupada was there and he would come to this lila-smarana festival. So we heard from different devotees also how much Prabhupada showered his mercy up on him. There are pictures of him receiving Prabhupada at his car.

He was a VIP devotee. His special service was cultivating VIP’s, especially the scientists. We showed a number of his disciples in Bali and different parts of the world some slides we have of him. He also was a wonderful sadhu. It is rare to find probably scientists who are sadhus, but he was a super-wonderful sadhu because he was very gentle, very kind.

Once we did a Panihati festival in Prabhupada Desh. His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, I gave him the first pot of the cida-dadhi. He, normally you get a big pot of this cida-dadhi covered with rasagullas, sandesa, normally what you would do is eat it. But what did he do? He took it and offered it in the mouth of all the devotees. There are pictures of the devotees with their mouths open and he is like birds feeding their babies. He was putting the prasad in their mouth.

He had special tunes, maybe these are Manipuri melodies, he would sing. He reached a very high note. Sometimes we would raise his hand. He had a particular, I can’t imitate it, only he can do it. He would raise his hand and then reach this high note. Then he, changed the tune again sang a part of this particular tune.

Prabhupada, I remember that he said that, I heard, I didn’t see it in writing, but I heard that the Manipuris were somehow descended from the gandharavas. That is why they are such nice singers and dancers, very cultural. His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja was like that, he was a great kirtan leader, singer, wonderful Vaisnava.

Somehow he was very kind to me always. He invited me to his World Congress Conference for the Synthesis of Science and Religion, both the one in Bombay and the one in Calcutta. I was studying science when I was in university, but I dropped out and joined Prabhupada’s university. Prabhupada didn’t tell me to keep studying because I was only in my freshman year. So my sophomore year I spent in ISKCON, but Prabhupada had him finish his study and get his PhD and use it.

Somehow he brought me and I tried to do what service I could do discussing with the scientists. One of the Nobel prize scientists in Calcutta, he was the discoverer of the laser. This is how much influence Maharaja had on him, he said, “I came to this function where 20 years ago I would never come, I would never dream, I would say that someone is crazy that I would be sitting here, a scientist, physicist, with religionists discussing about science.”

But because the scientists, the physicists, at least, I can’t speak for the chemists, the physicist, he came, “As quantum mechanics, quantum theory, now we have gone beyond the classical physics. These little particles act like people. I was hearing from Maharaja how this is, the Vedas have knowledge about consciousness in a scientific way, so I’m here to hear about it, I’m here to discuss it.”

So in this way, Maharaja in his tenacious and humble way, he would go and discuss with different scientists and he would convince them to some degree, I don’t know how much, but they would definitely come to his conferences they were influenced. He would influence them to be open to read the Vedas, to read Prabhupada’s books, to come to the conferences. He was having a great impact.

He also was a member of the World Parliament of Religions. He never invited me for one of those, so I don’t know exactly what happened, maybe someone else could speak later. He was very versatile.

I remember one time I was walking with Prabhupada and Svarupa Damodara Maharaja, maybe it was in Bhubaneshwar somewhere, I can’t remember now, Svarupda Damodara Maharaja was saying, “If we can influence the scientists, they are the people who are most respected in the world day, everyone follows science.”

Prabhupada was saying, “Yes, if you can convince the scientists, we can change the world.”

I am a Namahatta preacher, I am trying to get to the masses, so I was saying, “Well, it is very hard to convince the scientists. If we can convince all the people, maybe they’ll be more selective about what they accept from the scientists.”

Prabhupada told me, “Yes, if you can get people to come up to the scientists and say, ‘I don’t believe your theory of Darwin,’ that will be a big thing.”

But then he would go and convince Svarupa Damodara. It was like some kind of a game Prabhupada was playing, but he won. Svarupa Damodara won. Convincing scientists was considered more. . . but I got some good encouragement also.

Svarupda Damodara Maharaja, we were together in many places, but he was able to do things pretty much on his own. Sometimes he would call for help, but generally that was just his mercy. He was a very capable person.

Prabhupada told him to make Manipur a Vaisnava state. It was already a Vaisnava state, but to revive it to its full glory. I had the opportunity to go to Manipur and see. They have what is called Vijaya Govinda deities.

Sometimes he would serve the GBC special Manipuri meals. It’s been a long time since that happened. But he would give this special, they have blue rice in Manipuri. Manipur is like seven mountain ranges. In the middle there are two big lakes. What are they called, the Duck Lake or something? The main flower of this lake is lotus, so lotus is one of the main dietary parts of Manipur. He would feed the GBC’s lotus stems and lotus preparations and this blue rice. Especially when you make the blue rice, it is a sweet rice. It tastes like blueberries. Like this, he was introducing so much culture.

He was so dedicated to Prabhupada. we were discussing that even in the last moments, he was just thinking, “How can I please Prabhupada?” He was completely dedicated to being in ISKCON and please Srila Prabhupada.

There is some, Prabhupada told him especially do this kind of cultivating of scientists. Svarupda Damodara told me how he had this program in Rome in some special hall where once a year all the top scientists get together and have some program. The mayor of Rome gave it to him to also have a program. They had a number of scientists and devotees speaking. It was so successful that the mayor said, “You can have it every year.” It is a very prestigious venue.

I think my time is up. I don’t know who is trained up to follow in his footsteps, who can do the wonderful service he was doing. We were all expecting him to be with us for twenty, thirty years more at least. It is a big loss for all of us. He was very dear to all the Vaisnavas.

His Divine Grace Svarupa Damodara Swami Maharaja ki jai!

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http://mayapurlectures.blogspot.com/2007/02/memorial-program-for-hh-bhaktisvarupa.html

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This is the secret of success: if one is following the orders of the spiritual master very sincerely everything will be in order. If one does not do that then there will be lot of troubles to come

Srila Sripada february 2006, pelajaran  diksa,  Sri Navadvipa

Ini adalah rahasia sukses: jika seseorang mengikuti perintah-perintah guru kerohanian dengan sangat tulus, maka segala sesuatunya akan menjadi datang atu teratur dengan sendirinya. Jika seseorang tidak melaksanakannya maka akan ada banyak masalah yang akan datang.

Srila Sripada

Februari 2006. pelajaran diksa di Sri Navadvipa Dham

The  order of the spiritual master is the active principle in spiritula life. Anyone who disobeys the order of the spiritual master immediately becomes useless

(Cc Adi 12.10)

Perintah sang guru kerohanian merupakan suatu prinsip yang aktif dalam kehidupan spiritual. Siapa pun yang tidak menaati perintah guru kerohanian maka segera itu ia menjadi (murid) yang tidak berguna.

(Cc Adi 12.10)

Ketika kita merasakan perpisahan dari Krishna atau Guru Kerohanian, sebaiknya kita hanya mencoba mengingat kata-kata yang menjadi perintahnya dan kita tak lai merasakan perpisahan itu.

(Namamrita 2b.15)

Guru kerohanian hidup selamanya dengan perintah-perintah sucinya dan para pengikut hidup bersamanya

(surat Srila Prabhupad kepada Citrananda 11/15/73)

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by Srila Bhaktisvarupada Damodara Swami (DR. T.D. Singh, Ph.D)

Let’s sing together

Let’s chant together

Harinama mahamantra

The nectar of kali yuga

Time and tide shall wait for none

All kith and kin

All dear and near one

Will be swept one day

In the current of time

Serving the spiritual master

Worshipping Sri Sri Radha-Shyam

Let’s sing together

Harinama mahamantra

To attain love of God

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by Srila Prabhupada

The Following Glories Of Srila Sripada Maharaja was spoken by Srila Prabhupada when he gave Bhagavatam Lecture. This Quote type and sent By Abhimany das.

(Hare Krnsa. I was watching a DVD of Srila Prabhupada giving a Srimad Bhagavatam class (S.B.1.2.17) at New Vrndavan in 1974 and about mid-lecture he was glorifying his disciple Dr. Swarupa Damodara-dasa. I would like to include this excerpt here-Abhimanyu Das)

…”Just like one big scientist,our disciple, Dr. Swarup Damodar-dasa, M.S., Ph.D. He as dedicated his very advanced scientific book, we cannot even utter the words! He is a big scientist, advocated by many universities. Harvard University, Calcutta University. Here in Boston University and then again, California University. He is not ordinary man, but he admits in his dedication that: “I dedicate this book to my spiritual master, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, because he has given me the real knowledge that Krsna is the origin of everything.” Now, I am not a scientist, but I could teach a scientist, or convince him, that Krsna is the origin of everything. Unless he is convinced that Krsna is the origin of everything, how he has written this? So many scientist will challenge him, but he is prepared to accept the challenge. So, how it was possible for me to convince a big scientist? The fact is, as I have stated, that if you understand Krsna then you can teach even the greatest scientist, the greatest philosopher, the greatest politician, everybody. That is Krsna Consciousness. You don’t require to be a great scientist to teach a great scientist. But if you simply understand Krsna, then you’ll be able to teach even the greatest scientist, the greatest philosopher, anyone let them come. We shall teach him. We shall become their teacher. We challenge! Why? Because we know a little of Krsna…….Just like this scientist, he has surrendered. His study of science is perfect……”

Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya!
Srila Sripada Ki Jaya!
Sri Krsna Bhagavan Ki Jaya!

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